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Acquia Digital Experience Platform

209 Reviews and Ratings

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    Acquia Digital Experience Platform

    Score7.9 out of 10
    		N/AThe Acquia Digital Experience Platform is an "Open DXP" with its two core pillars being content and data. Built on top of one of the largest open-source content management systems, Drupal, it aims to provide the flexibility and interoperability a modern organization needs. With its customer data platform, it allows organizations to understand who their customers are and deliver personalized experiences. Acquia's DXP offers variety of other tools including digital asset management,…N/A

    Drupal

    Score6.9 out of 10
    		N/ADrupal is a free, open-source content management system written in PHP that competes primarily with Joomla and Plone. The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features such as account and menu management, RSS feeds, page layout customization, and system administration.N/A
    Pricing
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformDrupal
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformDrupal
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformDrupal
    Considered Both Products
    Acquia
    Verified User
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    Acquia coupled with their easier interface and 24 x 7 customer service can outweigh its competitors anytime.
    Acquia provides a full end to end solution for Drupal websites.
    Incentivized
    Mike Holzer
    Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at The American College of Financial Services (Higher Education, 51-200 employees)
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    Acquia Cloud is more of a hands-off approach to Drupal hosting - get the code on the server and that's basically it. AWS on the other hand requires more specialized server and networking knowledge to support a site. Our company wants to focus on content deliver and not on being …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    The customer selected Acquia since it had a better support for the US based laws (eg the PCI compliance).
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    The flexibility aspect of Acquia Site Studio is unmatched and WordPress does not provide it on a large scale. The ability to perform bulk operations and security are also the factors in favour of Acquia Digital Experience Platform as compared to WordPress. They also offer …
    Incentivized
    Kyle Taylor
    Senior Drupal Developer in Professional Services at FFW (Internet, 11-50 employees)
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    If you're project requires a multisite architecture with scalable site deployment, and your budget allows, I would recommend Acquia. Acquia pricing sits more on an Enterprise level, so it is overwhelming if you're hosting a smaller site. Pantheon is much more suited for …
    Incentivized
    Sean Hanford
    Senior Drupal Developer/Consultant in Professional Services at Ellucian (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    I have used Pantheon for almost as long as I have used Acquia. Many colleges and universities will use sub-sites in Drupal either as a separator for each department, or possibly for targeted marketing campaigns. One of the biggest reason we tend to use Acquia over Pantheon for …
    Incentivized
    Zach Ettelman
    Business Development Strategist in Sales at Elevated Third (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees)
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    Acquia offers a more robust product suite than Pantheon. Acquia also offers professional services for another level beyond what Pantheon offers. Acquia pricing is typically more expensive than Pantheon, but the extra cost tends to be worth it, given all the support you receive …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    Cost - Acquia provides more granular control of the costs.
    Interface - Acquia interface is a bit cleaner, although Patheon may have a few more features.
    Incentivized
    Jason Smith
    Senior Software Architect in Information Technology at The Weather Company, an IBM Business (Broadcast Media, 1001-5000 employees)
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    Acquia is a leader in managed Drupal hosting, knowledge and supporting infrastructure.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    Acquia is more fully featured and mature.
    Tory Trone
    Web Developer in Information Technology at United Church of God (Religious Institutions, 51-200 employees)
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    Acquia provides much more for the investment. The support and services they provide make them the best choice in choosing a platform to host your Drupal sites. Services like Pantheon may have some new tools or cool features. But Acquia always seems to come out with those …
    Eric Steinborn
    Web Developer ITS3 in Information Technology at NYS Office of Information Technology Services (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    Acquia has a much easier path for procurement through the GSA contract. Pantheon didn't have an avenue to purchase through the GSA, which severely limited our ability to procure their product. Pantheon has a few extra features which Acquia has yet to develop like true …
    Chris Hood
    Director, Technology in Marketing at Southern New Hampshire University (Entertainment, 501-1000 employees)
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    We evaluated multiple content management solutions, and Drupal was the best fit for our needs.
    Aj Blosser
    Senior Web Developer in Engineering at WVU Foundation (Fund-Raising, 201-500 employees)
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    I still feel WordPress is easier for a simple 4 page website. Anything more complicated than that, and Drupal is your answer. Drupal 8 may change this dynamic though. Acquia Cloud is provides some excellent dev to prod staging that I haven't seen anywhere else.
    Ivo Radulovski
    Partner Manager in Marketing at Propeople (Internet, 51-200 employees)
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    1. Setting up a local development environment with Drupal is easy and cheap
    2. Setting up an efficient development/deployment process is easy.
    3. Theming SharePoint is extremely difficult.
    Incentivized
    Drupal.org
    Michael Sypes
    Programmer Analyst in Information Technology at Goodwill of Central Arizona (Internet, 11-50 employees)
    Chose Drupal
    Drupal is head-and-shoulders above WordPress in terms of extensibility and community support, in great part because it is completely open-source. I would recommend it in almost every case over WordPress. (WP is only better if you already know that system well, and your end …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformDrupal
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Drupal
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    8.0
    49 Ratings
    Drupal
    2.0
    66 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.049 Ratings2.066 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Drupal
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.7
    41 Ratings
    Drupal
    7.7
    63 Ratings
    API7.839 Ratings9.358 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language7.632 Ratings6.054 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Drupal
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.9
    43 Ratings
    Drupal
    5.3
    69 Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor7.331 Ratings1.062 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.134 Ratings9.366 Ratings
    Admin section7.942 Ratings3.069 Ratings
    Page templates8.030 Ratings4.068 Ratings
    Library of website themes8.226 Ratings3.059 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.828 Ratings10.063 Ratings
    Publishing workflow7.934 Ratings9.367 Ratings
    Form generator7.924 Ratings3.064 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Drupal
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.0
    35 Ratings
    Drupal
    5.0
    68 Ratings
    Content taxonomy7.728 Ratings10.063 Ratings
    SEO support6.029 Ratings1.063 Ratings
    Bulk management6.931 Ratings10.059 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.432 Ratings2.062 Ratings
    Community / comment management7.226 Ratings2.062 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformDrupal
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (93 ratings)
    2.0
    (78 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (11 ratings)
    8.2
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    3.0
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    5.0
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    5.1
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.3
    (73 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)